新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit17:Evolution of Sleep 17.Evolution of sleep Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: i
28.Changing Roles of Public Education One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom
新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit16:The War between Britain and France 16. the war between Britain and France In the late eighteenth century, battles raged in almost every corner of Europe, as well as in the Middle E
03 The Definition of “Price” Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The
05 The Beginning of Drama There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argum
新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit14:A Rare Fossil Record 14 A Rare Fossil Record The preservation of embryos and juveniles is a rate occurrence in the fossil record. The tiny, delicate skeletons are usually scattered
新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit32:Botany 32 Botany Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about wh
The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.话说两个好朋友正在穿越一个沙漠。途中他们忽然争吵了起来，其中一
新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit15:The Nobel Academy 15 The Nobel Academy For the last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be
新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit25: Movie Music 25. Movie Music Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From th
A man and his girlfriend were married. It was a large celebration.一个男人和他的女朋友结婚，举行了一场盛大的结婚庆典。All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony and to partake of the festivities and celebr
01 The Language of Music A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers a
All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year; sometimes as short as twenty-four hours, but always we were i
新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit26:International Business and Cross-cultural Communication 26. International Business and Cross-cultural Communication The increase in international business and in foreign investment
Shelly to Elizabeth Hitchener Chestnut Cottage, Keswick Tuesday, 12 November 1811雪莱致伊丽莎白•西琴勒 Chestnut Cottage, Keswick 星期二 1811年11月12日Your letter of the 1st hath this moment reached me. I answer
新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit27:Scientific Theories 27. Scientific Theories In science, a theory is a reasonable explanation of observed events that are related. A theory often involves an imaginary model that he
新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit9:Suburbanization If by "suburb" is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the
新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit6:Television Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophisticatio
04 Electricity The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind, it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees, 青春不是生命的一段时光，不是指红润的脸颊、红扑扑的嘴唇和柔软的双膝；it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagina
